visions of the depression today

Contemporary parallels with the Great Depression - you are encouraged to add links that you have found.

Bill Moyers and Michael Zweig on class and unions in the 1930s and today.
http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/09182009/watch2.html

Shantytowns (hoovervilles) in the US, March 25,2009
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/26/us/26tents.html?hp

Bushvilles - the new hoovervilles
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yz8LXq1q6iI

Grapes of Wrath revisited - in 5 parts, video from the Guardian
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/aug/27/grapes-of-wrath-1-tulsa

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/aug/28/us-route-66-grapes-wrath

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/aug/30/grapes-of-wrath-revisited

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/aug/30/grapes-of-wrath-revisited1

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/video/2009/sep/01/grapes-of-wrath-revisited-part-five